Team
About Our Team

ShanghaiTech_China is a wonderful team, with a passion and imagination to create a better world with synthetic biology. Our team is a big team, we have 36 members, including 23 students, 10 advisors, and 3 PIs. Our team is also a young team, most of our students are freshmen and sophomores at the beginning, and the youngest member of our team is a high school student. But most importantly, our team members have interdisciplinary backgrounds and willingness, so can we propose such a great project, MBCS-Mars. This year, due to the epidemic in Shanghai, we spent half of the competition time completing the stage of brainstorming, research, and topic determination online. And the other half of the time, our member sacrificed their vacation time to get all the work done within the project. We have been through a tough and unforgettable time together, which has strengthened our bond and our friendship.

Student Members
Qi Xin
Team Leader

He was trying to do his best to lead this team and make friends with every member. This year he has grown up a lot but still messed up some of the experiments. Luckily in his lecture, he had a much more audience than the last year.

Kaijun Wang
Team Leader

She is mainly responsible for the experiments on E. coli. This year she was obsessed with constructing plasmids and measuring fluorescence intensity.

Yunan Zhang
Lab

He took part in the experiment of our team, especially the culture and gene manipulation of S. elongatus for the first time at ShanghaiTech University.

Jiawen Sun
Education

He is in charge of online platforms and also works in the lab. He learns how to design videos and make science popular, hope you like his works.

Yiming Pang
Model lab

He is a physics major interested in life science and aspiring to interdisciplinary studies. As the leader of modeling team, it is his duty to build the bridge between dry lab and wet lab.

Xuanling Zhang
Model lab

A physics major with an unusual passion for watermelons, he is mainly responsible for fluid simulation and fermenter design in the team.

Junlei Zhu
Wiki

Majoring in computer science, he is insterested in programming and was busy building web pages.

Xinhong Jiang
Hardware lab

Majoring in Computer Science, he is trying to find association between information and substance. A Geograhy enthusiast who is addicted to reading map and go to the distance along railway.

Shenxi Cao
Lab

He participated in the topic selection, experiment and copywriting. He loves iGEM very much, pays attention to experience life, and has developed the ability of adaptive work and rest.

Youle Fan
Lab

He, a beginner in biology lab, who once mistakenly discarded the supernatant when doing plasmid extraction, never surrenders to setbacks! With an enthusiastic heart, he strives for exploring deeper into life science.

Chenyao Li
Human Practice & Lab

He is a brick in the laboratory ,where necessary where the removal。Enthusiastic in participating in all parts of the work and never tired of it, hoping to move forward forever, and there will always be gains after hard work.

Yang Liao
Human Practice

She is the general director of the human practices section of the project. She enjoys meeting people face to face with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, she has spent most of this year staring at the microphone symbol on her screen.

Hongrui Ran
Education & Lab

He is a student majored in materials but enthusiastic with synthetic biology. Besides the experiment of cell immobilization, he also showed the audience the beauty of cell-free system in his popular science courses.

Yanan Shen
Art lab

She participated in all kinds of art work, from the team logo and wiki to posters and the promotion video.And she also enjoyed the times in the meeting room and the wet lab.

Xiaoyu Wan
Model lab

Majoring in life science, but also loves mathematical modeling. He partakes of both experimental and modeling quality. Studying while working, he devotes himself in the project and enjoys the time.

Shubai Wang
Art lab

With great passion in art and biology, he mainly participated in art design and helped a little in experiments. Although not good enough in many ways, he is always trying to make progresses and never give up.

Xijie Xu
Model lab

Call him weird guy, or call him daydreamer. By the way, he's recognized as the smartest in the team if the others don't refute it in their introductions.

Shangfei Xue
Education & Lab

Xue, a man majored in chemistry, participate in Education and Wet Lab. He is committed in popularizing synthetic biology to the public and making contribution in the laboratory.

Yiran Yan
Lab

A life science undergraduate from ShanghaiTech University, focusing on the experiment on A. caulinodans. It was his favorite to immerse himself in the experiment and discussion during the summer vacation.

Mengqing Yu
Lab

She mainly participated in wet lab. Although just a beginner in biology, she is a reliable colleague and always available.

Renjie Yu
Lab

He never used to walk into a biological laboratory. But now he has gained much experience in S. elongatus culturing and has grown into a mature laboratory worker, which strengthens his interest and confidence in learning biology.

Yujie Zhou
Education

She acted as the leader of the education section of the project. During the year's work, she is the responsible editor of the wechat official account Mr SynBio and organized and made overall arrangements of many activities, such as joint science popularization activities, the 9th CCiC Conference, volunteered education activities, Hello iGEMer, etc.

Ally Hu
High school

A high school student. She started as an inexperienced beginner, but she participated in various aspects of the project with energy and attentiveness.

Advisors
Rui Su
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent leader. Provide comprehensive advice.

Mingzhe Chen
Master student at ETH Zurich

2017 ShanghaiTech suduent leader. Provide comprehensive and model advice.

Chenghao Zhu
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide laboratory advice.

Shiyue Ding
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide human practic advice.

Yujie Wen
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide comprehensive advice.

Zhuoya Li
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide art advice.

Ruixuan Xue
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide comprehensive advice.

Jing Sun
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide and model advice.

Yiyao Zhu
Undergraduate

2021 ShanghaiTech suduent member. Provide hardware advice.

Qinyue Wang
Undergraduate

2021 CPU suduent member. Provide comprehensive advice.

Yixuan Huang
Undergraduate

Provide laboratory advice and help.

Professors
Dr. Wei Shen
PhD, Associate Professor

Affiliation:School of Life Science and Technology

Dr. Haitao Yang
PhD, Associate Professor

Affiliation:School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Institute

Dr. Yan Gao
PhD, Associate Professor

Affiliation:School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Institute